尝试在localhost-> SMTP上测试发送电子邮件错误：无法验证

Question

Im trying to test my emails functions in localhost with phpmailer class.

But I´m getting this error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate..

And this error its because I dont have a localhost email configured.

I already did this configuration in my Xampp php.ini to try test emails on localhost:

[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
; SMTP = localhost
 smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = myemail@hotmail.com

But its not working, Somebody there knows How to do this work on windows 8 with xampp?

<?php
    define('MAILUSER','myemail@hotmail.com');
    define('MAILPASS','');
    define('MAILPORT','587');
    define('MAILHOST','smtp.live.com');
    define('SITENAME', 'Site Name');    

        function sendMail($subject,$message,$sender,$senderName,$destination,$destinationName, $reply = NULL, $replyNome = NULL){

            require_once('mail/class.phpmailer.php'); 

            $mail = new PHPMailer(); 
            $mail->IsSMTP(); 
            $mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
            $mail->IsHTML(true);

            $mail->Host = MAILHOST; 
            $mail->Port = MAILPORT; 
            $mail->Username = MAILUSER; 
            $mail->Password = MAILPASS; 

            $mail->From = utf8_decode($sender); 
            $mail->FromName = utf8_decode($senderName); 

            if($reply != NULL){
                $mail->AddReplyTo(utf8_decode($reply),utf8_decode($replyNome)); 
            }

            $mail->Subject = utf8_decode($assunto); 
            $mail->Body = utf8_decode($mensagem); 
            $mail->AddAddress(utf8_decode($destino),utf8_decode($destinationName)); 

            if($mail->Send()){
                return true;
            }else{
                return false;
            }
        }   
    ?>

Here I send the email:

$msg = 'hello';
sendMail('Sent email!',$msg,MAILUSER,SITENAME,$assoc['email'],$assoc['name']);

Answer 1

Maybe your SMTP configuration needs to be updated? See this article about the Hotmail SMTP settings:

http://www.serversmtp.com/en/smtp-hotmail